Combined belt and garment



Jan. 20, 1953 A. s. KAUFMAN COMBINED BELT AND GARMENT Filed Dec. 23. 1.949

INVENTOR. ALFRED S. KAUFMAN By @M fizz AYTUEWE'Y Patented Jan. 20, 1953 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE COMBINED BELT AND GARMENT Alfred S. Kaufman, New York, -N. Y., assignor to Alseka Clothing Company, Inc., New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application December 23, 1949, Serial No. 134,744

body of the wearer, yet then with thewaist portion ofthe garment and its belt'addition, as these ordinarily would be viewed, quite conventional in appearance.

The invention as herein illustrated is applied to a pair of trousers, but, as will be understood, it is with like advantages also applicable to slacks, skirts and the like.

One of the features of the invention, additional to those already mentioned, is that a slidable belt member does not have to be employed, either at the inside or outside of the waist portion of the garment; another such feature is that while an elastic belt member is employed, the

'major width thereof is neither at the inside nor at the outside of the garment, but, instead, such major width portion is present as a fully girthwisely extending upward prolongation of the upper limit of the garment; another such feature is the combination with the said elastic belt member of a minor complementary belt structure in the form of two bucklably connectible inelastic belt sections, each fixedly attached to the outer side of the elastic belt member at the end of said inelastic section remote from its end to be bucklably connected to the other such section.

Another feature is the inclusion of dual fastening means for the ends of the belt component at the front center of the garment, with said fastening means consistingin part of the buckle meansgof said inelastic sections and in part of a fastening means for the ends of the elastic belt member, and with said two fastening means so relatively disposed that when the buckle means is closed, following closing of the fastening means for the ends of the elastic belt member the lastnamed fastening means is wholly concealed.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claim in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. l is fragmentarily a front perspective view of a pair of trousers equipped with a now approved embodiment of the belt component of the new combination.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical detail section, taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3, drawn to about the same scale as Fig. 2, is a fragmentary collective view, illustrative of the front portionof the combined belt and garment, with the end portions of both parts of the belt component detached, and consequently with both said fastening means opened.

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2, illustrating a modification.

Referring now to the drawing more in detail,

the pair of trousers illustrated at I0 is shown as having the usual front fly ll, so that, as is customary, this garment may be widely opened at the front thereof and below its top. Such top, in the present case, is shown, at l2, as being placed at about the usual location of the bottom edge of the conventional outer endwisely slidable leather belt held at the waistband portion of trousers of the ordinary cut'by way of a plurality of belt-loops spaced around the trousers top.

The aforesaid elastic belt member, this designated I4, is suitably secured, all along its length and at its lower marginal portion, as by stitching as indicated, to the inside of the trou ers ill, with its said lower marginal portion inside the trousers and with the bottom edge of the belt I4 slightly below the top l2 of the trousers.

This belt member I4, desirably a length of elastic strip material woven to be selvaged along opposite sides, is shown as finished off at its opposite ends by inturning such ends and stitching the inturned portions as shown to provide at one end of the belt member a two-ply structure I 5 and at the other end of the belt member a two-ply structure It. Stitching of the belt member 14, to the trousers while said member is in stetched condition results in the trousers ma-' terial adjacent to the trousers top 12 becoming suitably gathered, as at I4 so that later stretch of the belt member I4 longitudinally thereof will be permitted because accompanied by a corresponding increase in the length of the trousers top i2 due to opening up of such gathers.

As aforesaid, a minor complementary belt structure constitutes, in combination with the elastic belt member M, the complete belt component. Of said minor structure, its two inelastic belt sections, these respectively marked I1 and [8, are herein shown as straps, as of leather or the like.

Said strap 51 has an enlarged end, and at such end said strap is fixedly attached, as by a stitching 15, to" the outerside of the end* portion of: the elastic belt member it adjacent to the two-- ply structure 15 but at some distance back from said structure. The strap l8 has a similarly en-.- larged end, and at such end this strap is fixedly attached, as by a stitching 20, to the outerside' of the end portion of the elasticbelt 14 adjacent. to the two-ply structure IE but at some distanceback from said structure.

The strap 1? beyond its said enlarged end is. extended toward the strap 18 by a tongue prolongation having spaced therealong a plurality of holes 2!. The strap 18 beyond its said enlarged 5 end is extended towardthe strap l5-by. a tonguelike-prolongation folded back on itself near its outer end for there mounting abuckle 22, asin the manner and by the stitchingindicated;

These elements 2! and 22=constitutethe aforesaid bucklably connectible. fastening means be.- tweenthe two inelastic belt. sections; which. sec.-. tions, as just explained, are. constituted by the. straps H and i8.

Said straps are desirably of such lengths that when a. person wearing the'new combined belt andgarment isfrontally casually glanced at, especially if, suchpersonbe. wearing; av coat .or.

jacket, the :visual effectwillbe substantiallythah of a. person wearing aniordinary, pair, of..tr.ousers.-;- in association withsan ordinary separatewaist.

encircling belt.

Any selected decorative addition, as onemounte ing an imitation gem, is shown ati23. as fixedly attached to each of'the straps Hand 8 at their enlarged ends: and, particularly, with. such.0r

equivalent additions included, the elements- M1,.

11, I 3-, 22 and 23, taken togetheras avisualene semble while the trousers are being.worn,. suggest rather that the trousers areordinary ones, and that the belt component as a whole, although. especially embellished, is an ordinary belt.

The elastic-belt member I4 is always smartly erect allaroundthe waist of the wearer. The.

means for insuring this includes the aforesaid fastening means partially carried by eachof the opposite ends of the member 14; said means being herein shownascomprising a button. stitched.

to theoutside of the two-ply structure l5 anda.

button-hole cut 25 and. worked throughthe two-r ply structure E6. 24'25 is first closed, and following this), the.

In use, said fastening, means.

s at

tongue of the strap H is engaged with. the;

buckle 22 at that one of the holes 2| for drawing; together the two straps H and M3 to. flatness against the belt member M and into longitudinal alignment across the front of the belt: com-. ponent. Now, also, thefastening'means"24 25' is wholly concealed.-

Referring to the modification'shown in Fig: 4,, all the above advantages are retained; ,but, in addition, the elastic. belt member; here marked. l 4',

. ered, as at. M

is so permanently attached to the top of the trousers l0 or the like that such permanent attachment may be later modified for holding the parts l0 and 14' still permanently connected, yet for raising the general level of the belt member 14 thereby to improve when required the fit of the garment above the hips of the wearer. The belt membenl 4 along its bottom is twicereversely'laterally benton itself, to present a bottom marginal structure which is of three-ply nature because it includes the folds 25. and 27. In fabricating the garment, two lines of stitching are applied all along the length of the. belt member 14. One of these stitchings,

2.8; iS'fOr: attaching the belt member along its fold 26 to:. the trousers material; and the other of these stitches 29, is sent through both the folds 26" and Z'l'near the bottoms thereof, as well as through the trousers material.

During establishment of each of these stitchings=28 and 29, as in the case-of the stitching of thebeltmember Mtothetrousers I0 in=Figs.- 1-3, the. belt member I4 is in stretched condition,. and the trousers material is suitably gath- At anytime-later, asafter a first try-on, or even after some period of use of the new garment, the belt member. I 4' may;

be givenagreaterwidth, so as. to raise its tophigher above the top of the-trousers, merely by :cuttingfree various/of the threadv loops of the stitchinglBIandentirely removing this stitching. While. I. have illustrated and described; the preferred. embodiments, of my, invention, it

tolbeeunderstood that I. donot- Iimitmyself to: the. precise constructions. herein. disclosed; and

the right is reserved to all changes and modifica. tionsicoming within the scope of the invention as defined .in the appendedclaim.

Having thus described my, invention, what I.

claim as new, and desire tosecure by United States Letters Patent .is:

In a garment ofthev trouser type having a flyopening extendeddownward from the top edge. thereof and an elongated elasticmember of a length. corresponding to the circumference of the top edge of the garment secured along its bottom edges to the top edge of-the garment, said elastic member having its free ends overlappedover the fly opening, and aligned non-elastic belt members secured at their outer ends to the elastic-member on opposite sidesof said overlapped. ends, means releasably securing together said overlapped ends of the elastic member, and. means releasably-securing together the inner ends of said belt members.-

ALFREDS. KAUFMAN.

REFERENCES CITED.

The following references are of record in thefile of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,225,799 Goldsmith May 15, 1917 1,735,657 Sacks .et'al Nov. 12, 1929 2,080,246; Wengen.. l May: 11, 1937' 2,139,865. Stephenson Dec. 13, .1938- 

